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What you work on is more important than how hard you work.
Life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.
More before better.
Creativity before productivity.
Truth.
You try to do the best with what you've got and ignore everything else. That's why horses get blinders in horse racing: You look at the horse next to you, and you lose a step.
Distraction is dilution.
More moves and less chat.
Peace begins when expectation ends.
Building vs. betting.
Distraction, focus.
You're under no obligation to be the same person you were 5 minutes ago.
It's not about who got here first, it's about who stays.
Fear is the mind-killer.
The iron rule of nature is: you get what you reward for. If you want ants to come, you put sugar on the floor.
It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.
The first step is the steepest.
Failure = feedback.
When you get the money, the only thing you wanna buy is time.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
Bull, Bear, Builder.
Chronos, Kairos.
It's all relative.
Truth, Perception
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
Done is better than perfect.
No great thing is created suddenly.
Fashions fade, style is eternal.
Generalist, specialist.
If you think too much about what they think, you'll lose what you think.
You only fear being overtaken when you're not being yourself.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.
Hare & tortoise.
It is easier to change yourself than to change the world.
The fool is always getting ready to live.
Truth
Cover, story.
Banks vs. Blockchains
We don't want the thing we're after, we want to be after the thing.
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
zero-sum, infinite-sum
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
There are three types of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.
There's a tremendous power in using the least amount of information to get a point across.
‘Everything is original, nothing is original’
Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
No, it took me my whole life.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
The shortcut is to stop looking for shortcuts.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
Talk is cheap.
Words can be communicative only between those who share similar experiences.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Said, done.
Focus is determined by what you ignore.
The world will try and tell you who you are, and you have to tell yourself who you are. There's this ongoing battle, and somehow there needs to be a reconciliation between the two.
Appreciation.
If you sound unique, you can become irreplaceable.
Price is what you pay; value is what you get.
You are what you think you are.
